2GS FAMILY HERJRAL. 



they stand very thick, and are sharp, or almost 

 prick iv at the extremities. The flowers are yel- 

 lowish and inconsiderable ; and the fruit is a long 

 and large cone, which hangs down ; whereas that 

 of the true fir tree, or the yew-leaved fir, stands 

 upright. 



The tops of the branches and young shoots are 

 used : thev abound with a resin of the turpentine 

 kind. They are best given in decoction, or brew- 

 ed with beer. They are good against the rheu- 

 matism and scurvy; they work by urine, and heal 

 ulcers of the urinary parts. 



Pitch and tar are produced from the wood" of 

 this tree, the tar sweats out of the wood in burn- 

 ing, and the pitch is only tar boiled to that consis- 

 tence. To obtain the tar, they pile up great heaps 

 of the wood, and set fire to them at top, and the 

 tar sweats out of the ends of the lower, and is 

 caiched as it runs from them. 



Burgundy pitch is made of the resin of the wild 

 pine tree, which is common turpentine boiled in 

 water to a certain consistence, if they boil it longer, 

 it would be resin, for the common resin is only this 

 turpentine boiled to a hardness. 



The Ammoniacum Plant. Ammoniac am. 



A TALL plant, native of the East, and very im- 

 perfectly described to us. What we hear of it is, 

 that it grows on the sides of hills, and is five or six 

 (<vct high ; the stalk is hollow and striated, and 

 painted with various colours like that of our hem- 

 loc. The flowers, we are told, are small and white, 

 and stand in great round clusters at the tops of the 

 stalks, the leaves are very large and composed of a 

 multitude of small divisions : one circumstance wc 

 can add from our own knowledge to this description., 



